What I bought, read, watched, or otherwise consumed – February 2022
It’s time to dive in – don’t be shy!
Batman splits from Superman, then fights … Hydra? More from ’64
Following on Monday’s Bat-post, there are a couple more Batman stories from 1964 I wanted to talk about. First, from World’s Finest Comics #143, we have a story that asks …
Question of the Week: What’s your favorite pre-‘Star Wars’ science fiction movie?
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Crime clowns and deconstructed deathtraps: notes from Batman’s New Look era
As I approach the end of 1964 in my Silver Age rereading, I keep meaning to do one humongous post about all the 1964 stuff I want to cover. But …
Moby Dick
A while ago, I started reading Moby Dick, because it’s a classic. I’m not a quick reader. It’s a famous book about one man’s monomaniacal quest to kill a particular …
Darker than Deathstroke: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
Writing about Identity Crisis last week, I complained that I often found comics attempts at doing hard-edged, “this is the real world, we can’t play fair” stories as naive as …